Accused Tongue Cutter Arrested Again

A murder suspect accused of cutting out his own tongue has been arrested for tax evasion.

The Mobile County District Attorney's office says Michael Crocker and his wife, Donna, didn't pay taxes on $1 million they earned from their waste burning plant in Mount Vernon.

A Mobile County Grand Jury indicted the couple last month.

Michael and Donna Crocker were arrested last week in East Texas and extradicted to Mobile this weekend.

Investigators learned about the tax evaision while investigating Crocker for the murder of Stephen O'Neal Perret. Perret was found shot to death in a work truck near his Citronelle home on August 17, 2007. Perret was Crocker's neighbor and the plant manager at Vulcan Industrial Services, Crocker's company.

One day after Perret's funeral, Crocker called 911 and said someone cut out his tongue, but police believe Crocker cut out his own tongue.

Crocker was arrested for filing a false police report, a charge that was eventually dropped. Crocker is still a suspect in Perret's murder, according to a spokesperson for the district attorney.